Record ID: HAMP-1B4911
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy tombac button, with a rose flower design and a sun within its centre and lined border. The reverse is concave with the fixing pin missing, there is iron rust present. Suggested date: c.AD 1700-1800.
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2024
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Record ID: HAMP-4A0EBA
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy button dating to the Post-Medieval period, c. AD 1700-1900. The front of the button consists of a hollow domed head and the back has an opening 6.8mm in diameter. The button's shank is fixed to the inside of the dome through this opening, with only the sewing / attachment loop protruding. The button is in generally good condition. Dimensions: Diameter of button head 14.9mm, length (Including loop) 14.9mm (excluding loop) 12.1mm, and weight 3.9g.
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
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Record ID: SUR-3DDE25
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A convex cast copper alloy button of post medieval (16th century) date. The head is 11.2mm in diameter and decorated with a cross comprised of five small saltire crosses with pellets between the arms.
Created on: Monday 9th October 2023
Last updated: Sunday 15th October 2023
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Record ID: SUR-90CE60
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and incomplete copper alloy "dandy" button, 35.3mm in diameter, with a decorative border comprising punched circles containing clusters of four pellets contained in the convex lobes of a scalloped outer border. On the basis of comparable examples such as SUR-6D62E9 and SUR-3FA01B this was likely once gilded. The reverse is plain and has lost its attachment loop. Circa 18th century.
Created on: Thursday 20th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 20th July 2023
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Record ID: SUR-D37FD0
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small biconvex button of around 8.9mm diameter and 10mm height, with an undecorated surface and a thin, integrally cast loop shank. The alloy has a high tin content and appears silvery. Circa late 13th to 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-7AB124
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy (tombac) button dating from the Post Medieval period, about AD 1600 - 1700. It has a solid circular head with a small pimple or dot on the apex. In profile it is D shaped. The reverse is flat with a scar from the missing attachment loop which was probably of wire. It is 14.61mm diameter, 6.39mm thick and weighs 5.41g. The metal is grey with a slight green tinge to the patina. Compare examples in Buttons & Fasteners by Gordon Bailey, Page 35.
Created on: Tuesday 25th April 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
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Record ID: LON-0DA628
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval to Modern copper alloy three part button from a prison warders uniform dating from AD 1860-1902. This button is domed at the front and flat at the back. The pressed design on the front consists of a central royal crown with CONVICT PRISON around. The reverse of the button has the uniform outfitters name . HEBBERT & CO . LONDON. The copper alloy wire loop is present.  Dimensions: diameter: 25.60mm; weight: 4.05. During the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century prisons were formed of two departments, the Priso…
Created on: Thursday 20th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 25th April 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-B02050
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast, copper-alloy button of the Post-Medieval period (c1600-1700). The button was formed in two parts, the head and the shank. The button is discoidal in plan with a convex front and concave reverse. The outer face is undecorated. On the reverse is a simple looped shank that appears to be integral. The object has a dark grey/green colour. Measurements: Height: 9.95mm, Diameter of Head: 16.20mm, Thickness: 2.05mm
Created on: Friday 10th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 27th March 2023
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Record ID: SUR-6271E8
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy (tombac) button of Georgian date (c. 1780-1820). The button is flat, discoidal and 23.6mm in diameter. The front has a turned pattern of oblique lines in an annulet at the centre, with an outer border of interlocking feather shapes. The reverse has a loop shank soldered into a central domed boss.
Created on: Friday 10th February 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th February 2023
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Record ID: SUR-7F6199
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A die or machine stamped copper-alloy Royal Artillery button cover of the Georgian period (c. 1785 to 1802). The object is flat, circular and 16.2mm in diameter. The face bears the arms of the board of ordnance on a shield; Three Field Pieces on a chief argent with Three Cannon Balls, proper. 
Created on: Friday 6th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 6th January 2023
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Record ID: SUR-6D1158
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast composite copper alloy convex button with a domed front with central pellet. The alloy has a high tin content and would have appeared silvery when new. The reverse is slightly concave with the stump of a now lost wire loop shank. Circa 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 5th January 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-49C498
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval to Modern silver biconical button dating to the mid eighteenth to mid 19th century. The solid cast button is almost spherical in plan and slightly biconical in profile. On the reverse is an oval depression that would have held an attachment loop that is now missing. Measurements: diameter: 10.90mm; height: 8.85mm and weight: 4.56g. Similar examples have been recorded on the database e.g.DUR-04967A and SUSS-5A4944.
Created on: Monday 28th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 31st January 2023
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Record ID: SUR-39C75C
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy discoidal button of early post medieval date, 24.4mm in diameter with three drilled holes and no other decoration. The reverse has a small semi-circular integrally cast loop shank. It is unclear whether the holes were merely decorative or perhaps allowed attachment of some sort of decorative facing, perhaps of cloth or other organic material. See also Read (2005) number 116 for a very similar example from Lincolnshire.
Created on: Thursday 3rd November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 3rd November 2022
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Record ID: SUR-398CB5
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A biconvex composite copper alloy button of post medieval (c.17th-18th century) date, in two pieces. The button is circular with a die-stamped facing which is decorated with an arcuate octofoil or eight-pointed star which encompasses a four-pointed star with small fleur-de-lys between the rays. Around this motif is a border containing annulets and double-c motifs. The separate reverse plate has two blow holes and a wire loop shank.
Created on: Thursday 3rd November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 3rd November 2022
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Record ID: SUR-4110AB
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy naval officer's button of late 18th century (Georgian) date. The face has an incuse design of a fouled anchor. The reverse is flat with a stump of a loop shank at the centre and no maker's marks. The surface has traces of gilding.
Created on: Monday 10th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 10th October 2022
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Record ID: SUR-610975
Object type: BUTTON COVER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver plated cast copper alloy button cover of 18th century date. The cover is convex with a domed centre and a facetted octagonal rim. The reverse is concave with iron and cuprous corrosion.
Created on: Wednesday 24th August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2022
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Record ID: SUR-37CC32
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver three-piece decorated composite button of post Medieval date. The front is now separated from the rear and has been crushed. It has die-stamped and engraved decoration comprising a six petalled flower, with incised petals radiating from a central octofoil boss which is cast in relief. The back plate has been folded in two and has a wire loop shank fixed through a hole in the centre, which is flanked by a pair of blow holes. Circa 16th-17th century. Similar items have previously been reported under the 1996 Treasure Act, such as NMS-4FDBDA (2021T130), SUR-EAB87D (2021T221) and…
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Record ID: SUR-25D9A7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A decorated cast copper alloy (tombac) button of 18th century date with a tinned surface. The face is decorated with a finely incised sun disc or flower and the edge has a border of incised wedges. The reverse is concave with a stump of a broken central loop shank.
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2022
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Record ID: SUR-25A4C8
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small discoidal flat cast copper alloy button. The front has a cinqfoil design moulded in high relief, with heart-shaped petals each with a large pellet in the middle, surrounding a pellet boss. The reverse is flat with a soldered loop shank.
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-56FB62
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A three piece composite post Medieval button, 11.3mm in diameter, with a domed face with separate backplate and a soldered loop shank. The surface is undecorated.
Created on: Friday 24th June 2022
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2022
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